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LF-YOLO: A Lighter and Faster YOLO for Weld Defect Detection of X-ray Image

28 Oct 2021arXiv:2110.15045archive 2025-07-28

Moyun Liu, Youping Chen, Lei He, Yang Zhang, Jingming Xie

X-ray image plays an important role in manufacturing industry for quality assurance, because it can reflect the internal condition of weld region. However, the shape and scale of different defect types vary greatly, which makes it challenging for model to detect weld defects. In this paper, we propose a weld defect detection method based on convolution neural network, namely Lighter and Faster YOLO (LF-YOLO). In particularly, a reinforced multiscale feature (RMF) module is designed to implement both parameter-based and parameter-free multi-scale information extracting operation. RMF enables the extracted feature map capable to represent more plentiful information, which is achieved by superior hierarchical fusion structure. To improve the performance of detection network, we propose an efficient feature extraction (EFE) module. EFE processes input data with extremely low consumption, and improves the practicability of whole network in actual industry. Experimental results show that our weld defect detection network achieves satisfactory balance between performance and consumption, and reaches 92.9 mean average precision mAP50 with 61.5 frames per second (FPS). To further prove the ability of our method, we test it on public dataset MS COCO, and the results show that our LF-YOLO has a outstanding versatility detection performance. The code is available at https://github.com/lmomoy/LF-YOLO.

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